Editing Kathryn Janeway (section)

==Casting==
===''Star Trek: Voyager''===
[[File:janeway original.jpg|thumb|left|[[Geneviève Bujold]] as Nicole Janeway]]During the development of ''Star Trek: Voyager'', one of the actors considered to play the captain, before it was decided the character would be a woman, was [[Gary Graham]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=8 actors who were almost cast in 'Star Trek: Voyager'|url=https://www.handitv.com/lists/8-actors-who-were-almost-cast-in-star-trek-voyager|access-date=2021-03-03|website=H&I}}</ref> [[Kate Mulgrew]], [[Geneviève Bujold]], [[Erin Gray]], [[Patty Duke]] and [[Susan Gibney]] were all considered or auditioned during development, with Bujold being initially cast.<ref name=":4" />

The character was originally named Elizabeth Janeway, after the noted [[Elizabeth Janeway|writer of the same name]]. However, after Geneviève Bujold was cast, she requested the character be renamed "Nicole Janeway". Bujold was initially very positive, saying in an interview, "This role is a challenge but it feels right."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Caron|first=Nathalie|date=2013-01-22|title=Why Voyager's 1st Capt. thought she was a good fit (but wasn't)|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/why-voyagers-1st-capt-thought-she-was-good-fit-wasnt|access-date=2021-03-03|website=SYFY WIRE|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421041012/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/why-voyagers-1st-capt-thought-she-was-good-fit-wasnt|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bujold, whose acting experience was mainly in feature films, was unprepared for the schedule demanded by television and was unwilling to do news interviews. After the second day of filming for the first episode "[[Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager)|Caretaker]]", Bujold dropped out of the series.<ref name="meisler19940915">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/15/arts/real-star-trek-drama-enlisting-new-skipper.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | title=Real 'Star Trek' Drama: Enlisting New Skipper | work=The New York Times | date=1994-09-15 | access-date=May 24, 2011 | author=Meisler, Andy}}</ref>

After Bujold's departure, [[Joanna Cassidy]], [[Susan Gibney]], [[Elizabeth Dennehy]], [[Tracy Scoggins]], and [[Lindsay Crouse]] were considered as replacements.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Genevieve Bujold Abandons 'Star Trek: Voyager'|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/09/23/genevieve-bujold-abandons-star-trek-voyager/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=EW.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Erin Gray]] and [[Chelsea Field]] (wife of future ''Star Trek'' captain [[Scott Bakula]]) auditioned for the role.<ref name="KateMulgrew">{{cite web |author=Logan, Michael |date=May 1995 |title=Command Performance |url=http://www.totallykate.com/articles/cines595.html |access-date=2007-06-10}}</ref> Not only was shooting already behind schedule, but the episode had to be ready by January 1995.<ref name=":3" /> It was not only the launch of series, but would also be the first program airing on the newly-launching [[UPN|United Paramount Network]] (UPN), and over $20 million was being spent on the pilot.<ref name=":3" /> Kate Mulgrew, who had previously auditioned for the role, was cast on September 17, 1994.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1994-09-17 |title=Kate Mulgrew Replaces Bujold in 'Star Trek' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/17/arts/kate-mulgrew-replaces-bujold-in-star-trek.html |access-date=2023-05-22 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She suggested that the name be changed to "Kathryn", to which the producers agreed.<ref>{{cite book |author=Poe, Stephen Edward |title=A Vision of the Future: Star Trek Voyager |publisher=Pocket Books |year=1998 |isbn=0-671-53481-5}}</ref> 

===''Star Trek: Prodigy''===
In October 2020, Mulgrew confirmed she would voice Janeway in the animated series ''[[Star Trek: Prodigy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|date=2020-10-08|title='Star Trek: Voyager' Actress Kate Mulgrew To Reprise Iconic Role Of Captain Janeway On Nickelodeon's 'Star Trek: Prodigy'|url=https://deadline.com/2020/10/star-trek-prodigy-star-trek-voyager-actress-kate-mulgrew-to-reprise-captain-janeway-nickelodeon-1234593724/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman said of the choice, "We can think of no better captain to inspire the next generation of dreamers on Nickelodeon, than she."<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Otterson|first=Joe|date=2020-10-08|title=Kate Mulgrew to Return as Captain Janeway in 'Star Trek: Prodigy' at Nickelodeon|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/captain-janeway-kate-mulgrew-star-trek-prodigy-nickelodeon-1234797500/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> In April 2021, it was revealed that Mulgrew would voice an emergency training hologram based on Janeway.<ref>{{cite web |date=5 April 2021 |title=Star Trek Reveals First Look at Captain Janeway Animated Series |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/star-trek-captain-janeway-animated-paramount-plus |access-date=2021-04-06 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref> Though initially announced as a series for Nickelodeon, the show premiered on [[Paramount+]] in October 2021, with later airings on Nickelodeon.<ref name=":5" />

The real Janeway first appears in the episode "A Moral Star, Part 2". Janeway is searching for her former first officer, Captain Chakotay, of the USS ''Protostar''. She commands the USS ''Dauntless,'' which features a quantum slip-stream drive. The ship is based on schematics the crew of the USS ''Voyager'' obtained under Janeway's command in the Delta Quadrant of another USS ''Dauntless'', a ship used to bait the crew into getting assimilated by the Borg ("[[Hope and Fear]]"). She tries to keep up with the ''Protostar'' and its protowarp capability. The kids, desperate for a means of explaining the situation to their pursuers without setting off the "living construct" booby trap, since using regular communications with the Starfleet ships would do that, attempt a telepathic communication with Admiral Janeway. In the attempt, the effort goes awry with the consciousnesses of the kids' leader, Dal and Admiral Janeway being inadvertently exchanged in their bodies. While this development allows Janeway to learn the full situation from the kids, Dal's struggles in Janeway's body leads to the crew to believe she had lost her sanity. The two manage to return to their bodies, but Janeway found herself in the brig with seemingly no one willing to believe her explanation of recent events, nor her warning of the Protostar's booby trap before it was too late and the Starfleet ships in the immediate area starting to attack each other out of the crews' control and that promised to be only the beginning of the destruction.

The events of "Supernova, Part 2" caused Mulgrew's primary role in the series to shift to Admiral Janeway. Within this episode, the holographic Janeway stays on the ''Protostar'' in order to enact the self-destruct to destroy a "living construct" installed on the ''Protostar'' threatening to obliterate Starfleet. Though she promises to copy herself so she can join her young protégés, she is unable to do so due to the vastly increased complexity of her program, meaning her program is lost when the ''Protostar'' is destroyed, something she makes sure the kids only discover when it is too late so they would not delay their escape arguing with her. When the kids reach Starfleet Headquarters, Admiral Janeway vouches for them and takes them under her wing as warrant officers.

In the second season, Janeway works with the kids to rescue Chakotay from the future, accidentally creating a universe destroying temporal paradox in the process. As a result of the alterations to time, a younger version of the holographic Janeway returns in the second season, having spent ten years marooned with Chakotay. At the behest of [[Wesley Crusher]], Janeway reluctantly allows the kids to go after Chakotay alone and they find and rescue him and the ''Protostar''. At the end of the season, at Chakotay's behest, The Doctor copies the holographic Janeway onto an [[Living Witness|EMH backup module]] before her memories are erased and the ship is sent back in time to be found by the kids. In the present, the holographic Janeway becomes the Emergency Command Hologram of the new USS ''Prodigy''.